PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for producing a pet food, enabling a delicious and healthy meal to be easily fed to pet animals.SOLUTION: The apparatus for producing the pet food is provided, comprising: a charge port via which a material obtained by kneading raw materials for the food is charged an extrusion molding section to extrude the kneaded material via the extrusion port a cutter to form the kneaded materials granules by cutting the thus extruded kneaded material to a desired length a container laid at a position where the granules dropped by cutting the extruded kneaded material are received an agitating part set in the container and intended for agitating the granules a heating part to heat the granules under agitation by the agitating part and a drying part to dry the thus heated granules in the container.